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Cheff v. Mathes

1964-03-17 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

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21 judgments have relied on it, across 1967–1995

first 1967 · last 1995 · busiest 1985 (4 judgments)

1995-07-17CINERAMA, INC., a New York Corporation, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. TECHNICOLOR, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Morton Kamerman, Arthur N. Ryan, Fred R. Sullivan, Guy M. Bjorkman, George Lewis, Jonathan T. Isham, MacAndrews & Forbes Group, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation, MacAnfor Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, and Ronald O. Perelman, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1995-01-11UNITRIN, INC., James E. Annable, Reuben L. Hedlund, Jerrold v. Jerome, George A. Roberts, Fayez S. Sarofim, Henry E. Singleton and Richard C. Vie, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. AMERICAN GENERAL CORP., Plaintiff Below, Appellee. in Re UNITRIN, INC. Shareholders LitigationSupreme Court of Delaware 1993-06-22Allen NIXON, Harry Matlock, Roy Jolly, Floyd Schisler, Doyle Roach, Doyle Gilliam, John Milbourn, Tony Futrell, Edward Wiseman, Harold Bouland and E.C. Barton & Company, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. Guy C. BLACKWELL, Guy C. Blackwell, III, Carolyn Mai Blackwell, Nancy Ann Blackwell, Trustee for Guy C. Blackwell, III, Nancy Ann Blackwell, Trustee for Carolyn Mai Blackwell, Mai Banks Blackwell, Executrix of the Estate of G. Lawrence Blackwell, Lea Ellen Blackwell, O.G. Blackwell, III, Dr. O.G. Blackwell, Custodian for Claire Blackwell, Laurie Blackwell Black, Janet Porter Blackwell, Dr. O.G. Blackwell, Thomas M. Bizzell, Trustee for Nancy Jane Lauck and Amanda Ann Lauck and St. Timothy Episcopal Church, Plaintiffs Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1992-04-09W.B. Dixon STROUD, Jr., Morris W. Stroud, Agnes S. Peele, and Anne S. Bradford, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. J. Peter GRACE, Dr. George C. Dacey, Dr. T.J. Malone, Roger Milliken, H.W. Jockers, Dr. H. Keith Brodie, Minot K. Milliken, F.G. Rogers, Rene C. McPherson, Gerrish H. Milliken, and Milliken & Company, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1991-06-04Charles M. OBERLY, III, Attorney General of the State of Delaware, Allan P. Kirby, Jr., Grace K. Culbertson, and Ann K. Kirby, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. Fred M. KIRBY, II, Walker D. Kirby, Fred M. Kirby, III, S. Dillard Kirby, Alice K. Horton, Jefferson W. Kirby, and F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, Appellees, v. Allan P. KIRBY, Jr., Grace K. Culbertson, and Ann K. Kirby, Cross-Claim-Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1989-12-22Edith CITRON, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. FAIRCHILD CAMERA AND INSTRUMENT CORPORATION, Wilfred J. Corrigan, William C. Franklin, William A. Stenson, Walter Burke, Alvin C. Rice, C. Lester Hogan, Albert Bowers, Walter J.P. Curley, Schlumberger (California) Inc., Schlumberger Technology Corporation and Schlumberger Limited, Defendants Below, AppellantsSupreme Court of Delaware 1989-05-03MILLS ACQUISITION CO., a Delaware Corporation, Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. MACMILLAN, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1988-07-25BLASIUS INDUSTRIES, INC., William B. Conner, Warren Delano, Jr., Harold H. George, Harold E. Hall, Michael A. Lubin, Arnold W. MacAlonan, Thomas J. Murnick, and William P. Shulevitz, Plaintiffs, v. ATLAS CORPORATION, John J. Dwyer, Edward R. Farley, Jr., Michael Bongiovanni, Richard R. Weaver, Walter G. Clinchy, Andrew Davlin, Jr., Edgar M. Masinter, John M. Devaney and Harry J. Winters, Jr., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1988-03-15David GROBOW, Shelly Kostrinsky, Joyce L. Thomas, Drexel Home, Inc., Adelle Brody, Jerrold Schaffer, Phyllis Greenfogel, Martin Besen, Joseph Lieberman, Blanche Silverberg, Irving Kas, Beatrice L. Russ and Bronson Murray, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. H. Ross PEROT, Roger B. Smith, F. James McDonald, Howard H. Kehrl, F. Alan Smith, Donald J. Atwood, Lloyd E. Reuss, Robert C. Stempel, Thomas A. Murphy, Anne L. Armstrong, Catherine B. Cleary, James H. Evans, Walter A. Fallon, Charles T. Fisher III, Marvin L. Goldberger, John J. Horan, Edmund T. Pratt, Jr., James D. Robinson III, John G. Smale, Leon H. Sullivan, Dennis Weatherstone, Thomas H. Wyman, Morton H. Meyerson, J. Thomas Walter, Jr., and William K. Gayden, Defendants Below, Appellees, and General Motors Corporation and Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Nominal Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1986-03-13REVLON, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Michel C. Bergerac, Simon Aldewereld, Sander P. Alexander, Jay I. Bennett, Irving J. Bottner, Jacob Burns, Lewis L. Glucksman, John Loudon, Aileen Mehle, Samuel L. Simmons, Ian R. Wilson, Paul P. Woolard, Ezra K. Zilkha, Forstmann Little & Co., a New York Limited Partnership, and Forstmann Little & Co. Subordinated Debt and Equity Management Buyout Partnership-II, a New York Limited Partnership, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. MacANDREWS & FORBES HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1986-03-10William J. POLK, Jr., Et Al., Objectors Below, Appellants, Miriam Gelband and Leo Kayser, III, Objectors Below, Appellants, Seagoing Uniform Corporation, Objector Below, Appellant, Mollie Pin, Objector Below, Appellant, Mandel, Lipton & Stevenson Profit Sharing Plan, Objector Below, Appellant, v. Howard GOOD, Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellees, and Texaco, Inc., Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1985-11-20John A. MORAN and the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, Plaintiffs Below-Appellants, and Gretl Golter, Individually and in a Derivative Capacity, Plaintiff Intervenor Below-Appellant, v. HOUSEHOLD INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Donald C. Clark, Thomas D. Flynn, Mary Johnston Evans, William D. Hendry, Joseph W. James, Mitchell P. Kartalia, Gordon P. Osler, Arthur E. Rasmussen, George W. Rauch, James M. Tait, Miller Upton, Bernard F. Brennan and Gary G. Dillon, Defendants Below-AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1985-06-10UNOCAL CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. MESA PETROLEUM CO., a Delaware Corporation, Mesa Asset Co., a Delaware Corporation, Mesa Eastern, Inc., a Delaware Corporation and Mesa Partners II, a Texas Partnership, Plaintiffs Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1985-03-14Alden SMITH and John W. Gosselin, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. Jerome W. VAN GORKOM, Bruce S. Chelberg, William B. Johnson, Joseph B. Lanterman, Graham J. Morgan, Thomas P. O’Boyle, W. Allen Wallis, Sidney H. Bonser, William D. Browder, Trans Union Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Marmon Group, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, GL Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, and New T. Co., a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1985-01-29John A. MORAN and the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, Plaintiffs, and Gretl Golter, Individually and in a Derivative Capacity, Plaintiff Intervenor, v. HOUSEHOLD INTERNATIONAL, INC. a Delaware Corporation, Donald C. Clark, Thomas D. Flynn, Mary Johnston Evans, William D. Hendry, Joseph W. James, Mitchell P. Kartalia, Gordon P. Osler, Arthur E. Rasmussen, George W. Rauch, James M. Tait, Miller Upton, Bernard F. Brennan and Gary G. Dillon, Defendants; HOUSEHOLD INTERNATIONAL, INC., Counterclaim Plaintiff, v. John A. MORAN, Charles H. Dyson and the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, Counterclaim DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1984-03-01Senior ARONSON, Et Al., Defendants Below, Appellants, v. Harry LEWIS, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1981-07-06Ruth PANTER Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MARSHALL FIELD & CO. Et Al., Defendants-Appellees; Richard WEISS Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MARSHALL FIELD & CO., Defendants-AppelleesSeventh Circuit 1980-11-17Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 97,603, Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 97,705 Treadway Companies, Inc. v. Care Corporation, Robert W. Browne, Daniel Cowin and Philip Dejourno, Care Corporation, Robert W. Browne and Philip Dejourno, Counterclaim v. Fair Lanes, Inc., Treadway Companies, Inc., Daniel Parke Lieblich, John R. McDonnell Simon Gluckman, Norman Brassler, Murray L. Cole, Samuel B. Dobrow and Bernard Mills, Counterclaim Care Corporation and Philip Dejourno, Suing Derivatively in the Right and for the Benefit of Treadway Companies, Inc., Counterclaim v. Fair Lanes, Inc., Daniel Parke Lieblich, John R. McDonnell Simon Gluckman, Norman Brassler, Murray L. Cole, Samuel B. Dobrow and Bernard Mills, Counterclaim and Treadway Companies, Inc., Nominal CounterclaimCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit 1980-08-19Johnson, Gilbert P. And Johnson, Hervey M. v. Samuel J. Trueblood, Arnold E. Trueblood, Harvey I. Salwen, and Penn Eastern Development Company Gilbert Johnson and Hervey Johnson, Individually and Derivatively on Behalf of Penn Eastern Development CorporationThird Circuit 1977-10-20Charles KAPLAN, Plaintiff, v. Robert S. GOLDSAMT, Bernard J. Korman, Alan B. Miller, Leonard W. Cronkhite, Jr., Thomas L. Kempner, Leonard M. Leiman, Louis Rones, J. Irving Schwartz, Joseph Ziegler and American Medicorp, Inc., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1967-06-02CONDEC CORPORATION, a New York Corporation, Plaintiff, v. the LUNKENHEIMER COMPANY, U. S. Industries, Inc. and U. S. Industrial Corporation, Delaware Corporations, DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware

What it rests on

1963-01-24Graham v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing CompanySupreme Court of Delaware 1962-12-28Bennett v. ProppSupreme Court of Delaware 1960-02-18Kors v. CareyCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1952-10-30Lester Martin, Sylvia Martin, Samuel Martin and Lester Martin & Co., Inc., a Corporation of the State of New York, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, vs. American Potash & Chemical Corporation, a Corporation of the State of Delaware, Defendant Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1950-02-09Johan M. Andersen & Others vs. Albert & J. M. Anderson Manufacturing Company & OthersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

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Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

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